Yogesh Jankee wrote: > Hi, > I am currently experimenting mass installation using system imager. > I need to install a custom linux based distribution on around 20 laptops > and system imager suites my needs for this purpose. However, all laptops > (Acer Extensa 4620) comes with the 3 partitions. One containing the > rescue image from acer, the other containing vista and one which we need > to run linux on. I installed system imager server and could install the > custom linux based distribution through PXE on one laptop. However after > the installation, all windows partitions were converted to linux > partitions and i cud not boot to vista. > > Can anyone suggest possible solutions or a proper way of doing this. > Thnx in advance.
SystemImager should be able to properly detect windows/rescue partitions and skip them (do not format / do not touch them) during installation. Maybe the partitions flags are not correctly detected on your golden client by si_prepareclient. Which version of systemimager are you using? Could you post your autoinstallscript.conf (/var/lib/systemimager/images/<YOUR_IMAGE>/etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf in your image server)?. Could you post the output of the following commands (executed on your working golden client)? parted --version parted -s -- /dev/<YOUR_DISK> unit MB print sfdisk -l -uM /dev/<YOUR_DISK> The output of si_prepareclient would be helpful as well. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
